Hilda Hadan recently earned her PhD in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is currently a postdoctoral scholar with the HCI Games Group. She is also a member of the Safe Interactions Lab, collaborating with Dr. Lennart E. Nacke and Dr. Leah Zhang-Kennedy. Hilda's research is centered around deceptive design (also known as dark patterns) in games and game-related technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). Beyond her work on deceptive design, Hilda has also published research in the areas of video games, usable privacy and security, and generative AI.

Hilda holds a Master's degree in Security Informatics from the Indiana University, the United States, and a Bachelor's degree in Automation Engineering.